Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.4.3-422-g34cd6
diff --git a/git-describe.txt b/git-describe.txt index fbb40a2..d9aa2f2 100644 --- a/git-describe.txt +++ b/git-describe.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ being employed to standard error. The tag name will still be printed to standard out. +--long:: + Always output the long format (the tag, the number of commits + and the abbreviated commit name) even when it matches a tag. + This is useful when you want to see parts of the commit object name + in "describe" output, even when the commit in question happens to be + a tagged version. Instead of just emitting the tag name, it will + describe such a commit as v1.2-0-deadbeef (0th commit since tag v1.2 + that points at object deadbeef....). + --match <pattern>:: Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid leaking private tags made from the repository).
